Hi Krystal, I haven't figured out how to respond to your comment in the correct way yet,
tried and failed! Oh well...Have you heard about Full Circle Farms? I also do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, and of course the usual; safeway, cost savers, cactus flats, and when friends travel off island they are willing to pick up a few items for me. There are a lot of things that grow great here, obviously, (farmers market,) but Full Circle is a great way to supplement the things you can't find here. I usually edit my order and add a few things from their store too! How long have you been delving in the raw food world? Have you done any research? How many cooked meals do you eat a week? Have you heard of green smoothies? Oh yeah, about sprouting...
We used to do Full Circle but quit because we were getting too many things we weren't using. However, at that time we weren't doing much raw at all. It's been great to be able to get fresh local produce this year! My husband and I just started trying to incorporate more raw meals in the last few weeks. We have been vegetarian for a while and cut dairy the last six months (I was off diary previously but had to eat it while pregnant...ensure, etc. not fun!) I'm still nursing so I eat a ton and I'm finding it challenging to get full on raw foods other than lots of nuts and seeds. Right now we are doing 1-2 meals a day raw and one cooked. Over time we'd like to increase our diet to about 75% raw, but there are a few things we are not ready to give up cooked, mainly beans and tomato sauces. I just finished reading Conscious Eating by Gabriel Cousins and am hoping to try some of his raw recipes soon!
ReplyDeleteHi Krystal, My friend helped me figure out how to respond to your comments, whew! I really understand the need to eat, and eat now, and when you can, while nursing! It is super challenging to learn to un-cook your food! A few tips to incorporate raw foods other than nuts and seeds; make bowls (or a veggie tray) of cut up broccoli, cabbage, carrots, onion, beets, zuchinni, snap peas, and whatever you like, to keep in your fridge...use a food processor, or mandolin to make it fast. I also pre-make dressings and ALWAYS keep a bowl full of chopped lettuce ready...then you can assemble a custom salad in a flash. Somedays I'll make a taco filling with corn and big chunks of mushrooms, onion, cilantro, lime juice, cumin, garlic, and a dash of tamari and wrap that up in lettuce or cabbage leaves, raw taco...or top my salad with a freshly blended salsa...add hemp and chia seeds with some nutritional yeast, (not raw,) but delicious. I am ordering a spiralizer to cut zuchinni into noodle like strips...that'll open a new door for me! Green smoothies are the best way for our family to injest large amounts of greens. I'll bring a book about that for you to borrow on saturday if you'd like, it's fascinating stuff! I too cannot yet give up beans, soup, and tomato sauce, cooked grains either...I went totally raw for 4 days at a time and had a rough time...broke out, got mildly sick, so I'm taking it slower...
ReplyDeleteI'd love to borrow that book. Tried our first raw soaked barley last night and it was really yummy! I put it in a salad that I've made before that calls for cooked barley, and has other cooked ingredients, just to test it out. Honestly the taste was very similar to cooked barley, the ony real difference was that it wasn't fluffy.
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